Re: [squid-users] BUG !? swap.state: (13) Permission denied ...

But can I always use "killall -HUP squid" command ? I'm newby on this Squid
version.
I killed squid with killall ?!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] BUG !? swap.state: (13) Permission denied ...

> Riccardo Castellani wrote:
>> I'm using Squid 2.7 Stable in Debian Sarge environment, when I tried to
>> restart Squid service but process died.
>> I got this message in cache.log : "swap.state: (13) Permission denied
>> ..."
>> First to restart I send killall -HUP squid. What happened ?!
>
> You killed Squid before it completed writing and setting ownership details
> for the new swap.state file.
>
> Erase the swap.state file and start Squid again as you normally would.
> Have some patience this time because the startup may take a long time to
> regenerate the content of swap.state from on-disk information.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE23
> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16
Received on Sat Feb 06 2010 - 23:08:54 MST